Rockets general manager Daryl Morey shed some light on what the Rockets might look like with Dwight Howard and Omer Asik on the floor next season.

"Coach (Kevin) McHale plans to experiment with Dwight at (power forward) and Omer as (center) in training camp," Morey said in an "ask me anything" chat on reddit.com Friday. "If it works and helps us win, obviously we would look at using it."

When the Rockets landed Howard as a free agent this summer, there was some concern that Asik, one of the Rockets' big acquisitions in 2012, would not be happy with a reduced role.

"Omer would prefer to be a starter and is certainly a starter (and) quality player," Morey said in response to a question about Asik's feelings on having to share the duties at center with Howard. "That said, he is a winner first (and) likes being on a winning team."

Asik, 7-0, started all 82 games for the Rockets last season and played 30 minutes per game after being signed as a free agent from the Chicago Bulls. He averaged 10.1 points and 11.7 rebounds.

Later in the chat when asked who he thought would be the starting power forward, Morey responded that he expected Donatas Motiejunas or Terrence Jones to start.

Morey touched on an array of subjects, including point guard Jeremy Lin.

A user in the chat said Lin "fell a bit off the map late in the season" and asked if Lin would be better in a reserve role.

Morey said the criticism of Lin's season consistently amazes him. He pointed out that Lin started slowly after trying to get back from an injury, that the expectations on the young point guard were too high and that he was injured late in the season.

"People generally remember starts (and) ends more than anything else," Morey said. "Last year was Jeremy's first full year in the league. Essentially his rookie year.

"If last season would have been his rookie year and he never would have played in New York, right now people would be appropriately talking about him incessantly as one of the top young rookie stars in the league. He was the starting point guard on a playoff team in the West at age 24."

Lin, 24, averaged 13.4 points and 6.1 assists in his first season with the Rockets.

Jenny Dial Creech, a native of San Antonio and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, started at the Houston Chronicle in 2005 as a high school sports reporter. She has since covered an array of beats and served as an assistant sports editor and senior editor of Texas Sports Nation. Creech is the president of the Association for Women in Sports Media and was awarded the 2015 APSE Diversity Fellowship. In addition to her role at the Houston Chronicle, Creech also works with several high school and college journalists at Columbia University journalism conferences and workshops.